Author: Michael Fuhrmann
Date: 14:40:04 05/04/00
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On May 04, 2000 at 17:37:54, Michael Fuhrmann wrote: >On May 04, 2000 at 16:54:07, pete wrote: > >>On May 04, 2000 at 13:27:03, Michael Fuhrmann wrote: >> >>>I don't have room for all the 5-piece tbs. Right now I just have krpkr (and all >>>the 3s and 4s). Any sugestions on the most important ones after that? >> >>You chose a dangerous set as for most chess programs using your tablebase set >>the prog will now not promote in a krpkr :-( >> >>Only exception I know by now is crafty that will check if tablebases are missing >>. >> >>So the first additional tablebases you need are the ones with the pawn promoted >>: krqkr , krbkr , krnkr >> >>Then ( if you still have space ) get the ones with the queens and the pawn ; >>kqpkq and the subsets . Queen Endings like those seem to happen surprisingly >>often in computer games and are very difficult to calculate because of the >>eternal checks. >> >>I guess if you _then_ still have space you could get some of the more freakish >>oneslike KBBKN : these happen rarely but if they do tablebases really help ;-) >> >>Hope this answered your question . >> >>pete > Thanks for this (is what I meant to say). Actually, I do use tablebases only with crafty.
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